Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-28
MONTANA MATTERS.

The Tribune is a~gitating the question o!
establishing a board OF trade at Great
Falls.
Three companies of troops have been
sent into the Sweet Grass Hills to watch
Tor British Indians.
Wickes will be the ~liveliest railroad and
mining camp in the Territory for the mex
year or two at least.
The Sweet Grass placer mines are sending
in gold dust at a lively rate to Fort Ben
tons National Bank.
contract has been let for one hundred
and fifty thousand ties, to be used in
building the Bitter Root Railroad.
Last Sunday the Hele Ia independents
went over to Townsend and beat the local
nine in a game OF base ball by 81 to 8.
The Helena city Jail holds w. H. James,
a d~eserter from Fort Shaw, who will be
held until sent for by the military authori-
ties.
awards amounting to $21 ,O9S have been
made by the commission appointed to con
denim the right of way OF the Montana
Central.
Tie makers are wanted at the Mercantile
compsny's, at this place-get in early and
secure a good contract S~tevensville
Tribune.
George B. Hartman, one Of the leading
fruit-growers in Missoula County, predicts
that peaches will yet be grown in Montana
proftaply.
The gambling fraternity are becoming nu.
nervous in Great Falls. There are from
three to half a dozen 'tiger" games run
ming every night.
The lots in Great Falls have a frontage
OF fifty feet and depth of one hundred and
fifty. There are also twenty-foot alleys in
the center OF all the blocks.
Several wires have been stretched across
the Fort Benton court room, just below
the ceiling, and they have wonderfully i'm.
proved the acoustics" OF the room.
Several citizens OF Fergus county have
signed an agreement binding themselves to
Jointly pay to the person securing the ar
rest and conviction OF the ~incendiary who
hired the Maiden brewery the sum OF $500.
W. A. Jewell lost a valuable mare and
one McWilliams lost two horses from
ranches in the Bitter Root Valley near
sstevensville one evening lately. The thief
Is supposed to be a resident OF that vlcln'
ity.
Herbert Mellen, the man who cleaned
Nose Solomon's ranch out and stole his
sal boat, by the advice Of his attorney
pleaded guilty at Fort Benton on Thurs
day last, and was sentenced to ten years
In prison.
Parsons have frequently been known to
move heaven and earth to put up a par
sohagn Tor them hut the Stevensville III
pune mentions three who moved a parson.
ae about thirty feet to render it sale in
case OF fire.
More rain, more grass; more grass, more
it cattle and more marketable beef means
sood times and plenty of money in the
,ai. The stockmen-cattle, sheep and
n~mnrsemen-never felt more encouraged. and
anagree that Eastern Montana is o to
redeem herself.-Miles City Journal.
Miles City sportsmen have discovered
tnat doves are not among the feathered
hloe protected by the game law, and have
Jen enjoying the sport OF shooting the
lives u which are plentiful in the timber and
mush about town. They are good eating
u The sport in hunting them is good.
me Wool Growers of Eastern Montana
ANY, IN session at Miles City last Wednes-
s %s ana passed a series of resolutions, in
CCuuihs an Endorsement of the Interstate
adni;nerce act and a protest against the
n ,imn OF foreign woods ut low-tariff
i m"s s censuring the Treasury Department
IT'S Unfair rulings in this respect.
th 40 ilnglcy, who recently returned from
ton 'ua'h, says he found the stock situa-
sert;a much better than he expected in that
yerv I on the Moccasin range the loss is
saw tgnt' and throughout the Judith he
nat;v .nat 10 per cent will cover the loss OF
much cattle. The doughties persisted in
s'ea0er numbers.-River Press.